Comments on: Hands-On: Steelseries’ New, Deliciously-Priced Apex Keyboards & Flux Earbudshttp://www.gamefront.com/hands-on-with-steelseries-new-apex-keyboards-and-flux-earbuds/
Read the latest gaming news, get game downloads, mods, patches, and watch game videos at Game Front.Tue, 31 Mar 2015 17:12:07 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1By: Kevin Colemanhttp://www.gamefront.com/hands-on-with-steelseries-new-apex-keyboards-and-flux-earbuds/comment-page-1/#comment-321503
Kevin ColemanWed, 09 Jan 2013 15:41:48 +0000http://www.gamefront.com/?p=200306#comment-321503"So what spurred the in-ear audio craze for Steelseries? Trends and functionality, it seems. “We bought 102 different sets of in-ear headphones, and we found nothing that we liked,” said Kim. He also noted that in-ear audio is popular amongst the various Steelseries-sponsored gaming teams, so they wanted to start supplying these gamers with branded equipment. “Gaming tournaments are so loud now, so a lot of players are wearing earbuds under their over-ear headphones.”"
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It's not really that. It's because on stage in tournaments they require you to wear their brand of noise cancelling ear-muffs (not even headphones) so you HAVE to wear earbuds. Many tournaments are adapting to this, so many famous pro gamers followed suit to the training habits of korean broodwar pros and trained with the earbuds they were going to use to keep their experience the same in training as in on stage. And since some tournaments allow the headsets, but kinda require them, they wear the headsets over to keep themselves used to it. At least thats from what I know. It's not very comfortable to wear in-ear under circumaural headsets.“So what spurred the in-ear audio craze for Steelseries? Trends and functionality, it seems. “We bought 102 different sets of in-ear headphones, and we found nothing that we liked,” said Kim. He also noted that in-ear audio is popular amongst the various Steelseries-sponsored gaming teams, so they wanted to start supplying these gamers with branded equipment. “Gaming tournaments are so loud now, so a lot of players are wearing earbuds under their over-ear headphones.””

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It’s not really that. It’s because on stage in tournaments they require you to wear their brand of noise cancelling ear-muffs (not even headphones) so you HAVE to wear earbuds. Many tournaments are adapting to this, so many famous pro gamers followed suit to the training habits of korean broodwar pros and trained with the earbuds they were going to use to keep their experience the same in training as in on stage. And since some tournaments allow the headsets, but kinda require them, they wear the headsets over to keep themselves used to it. At least thats from what I know. It’s not very comfortable to wear in-ear under circumaural headsets.